An exclusive 3 minute glimpse into Brendan Jamison's sculpture studio was broadcast on The Arts Show, 10-10:30pm on BBC TWO Northern Ireland, Thursday March 19, 2015.

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JANUARY 2015

VOGUE COMMISSION, MILAN, ITALY

Brendan Jamison has been commissioned to make 4 sculptures for Vogue magazine in Milan, Italy. The sculptures will feature in a special photo-shoot in the March 2015 edition of Vogue Italia. After publication, images will be released on www.brendanjamison.com

EVOLUTION, a new sugar cube sculpture installation by Brendan Jamison and Mark Revels, was unveiled on December 9 at the corporate launch of the new Sugar Hill Museum of Art and Storytelling in New York City. Alvin Hall, the internationally renowned financial educator and TV presenter, officially opened the event with his notable blend of charisma and wonderful sense of humour. He delivered a very witty speech in front of hundreds of guests and particularly enjoyed interacting with Jamison and Revels as he got down on his knees to contribute to the 'Evolution' installation. For images of the project please CLICK HERE

Harvest Films, based in Los Angeles, commissioned sculptors Brendan Jamison and Mark Revels to travel to Hollywood to create a giant human-shaped city in sugar cubes for a television commercial by Brita, the German water-filter company that operates globally. Using 221,314 sugar cubes and measuring 8 metres long, the sculpture represents the average amount of sugar that one human being consumes in a lifetime. Directed by Matthias Zentner, the TV campaign was released in Canada on Monday September 8, 2014. It was then broadcast across America on Friday October 17 and continues to air until the end of December 2014. The commercial is designed to highlight the serious health risks of drinking liquids with high sugar content. For further information please CLICK HERE

On October 1, Brendan Jamison won the annual Professional Development Award from the UK Textile Society. The award will fund an exhibition of wool forklift sculptures in March 2015 in Beijing, China. The judges stated "the project is witty, exciting and has an innovative gender approach with excellent promotion of UK textiles". The Society promotes the study of textile disciplines and celebrates the history and culture of textiles, both traditional and contemporary. Established in 1982 as an educational charity, the Society gives support to students, designers, historians and practitioners though its educational and professional awards. The Society's Journal, TEXT is published annually.

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JUNE - AUGUST 2014

SUGAR METROPOLIS, HARLEM, NYC

'New York Sugar Metropolis' is a giant collaborative project devised by international sculptors Brendan Jamison and Mark Revels. The exhibition is hosted by NO LONGER EMPTY at a new artspace in the Sugar Hill district of Harlem. Sugar Metropolis is open to the public to contribute and is on display until Sunday August 10, 2014. It is located on the ground floor of the new Sugar Hill Museum of Art at Broadway Housing Communities, 404-414 West 155th Street, on the corner of St. Nicholas Avenue, Harlem, New York City. Opening hours: Thursday and Friday: 3-7pm. Saturday and Sunday: 1-6pm. FREE ENTRY. Project sponsored by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the New York office of the Northern Ireland Bureau and LuLu LoLo Productions. For further information CLICK HERE

Official trailer for Sugar Metropolis [created by Design Ethos for the RUA]

The 'Sugar Metropolis' project began in October 2013 as a giant
collaborative project devised for the Royal Ulster Academy (RUA) by sculptor Brendan
Jamison. Every visitor to the Ulster Museum was invited to participate in the
creation of this large-scale sugar cube sculpture installation, enclosed within
its own room as part of the RUA Annual Exhibition. Featuring half a million cubes, Sugar Metropolis was generously sponsored by KPMG, Arts & Business N.I. and Belfast City Council. Jamison outlined how
"this special project celebrated the power of collaboration in
art, unlocking the potential of thousands of minds working together in the
realisation of an artwork beyond any one person's singular
vision." Sugar Metropolis opened to the public on Friday 18
October 2013, with participation continuing until Sunday 17 November. With visitors coming to the Ulster Museum from all over the world, over 5,000 people contributed to the building of the sculpture. The completed Sugar Metropolis was on display until Sunday 5 January 2014 and received over 74,000 visitors. For further information please CLICK HERE

Completed in April 2014, Brendan Jamison worked on an 18 month research project on Field Station Berlin, a Cold War American spy station built on Teufelsberg, an artificial hill in the Grunewald forest. The core of the research features 'intelligence reports' that Jamison has created through detailed analysis of the spy station with regular field trips to the site and extensive interviews with former intelligence operatives.Phase 1 culminated in a September 2013 exhibition at the WerkStadt Gallery, Berlin. Phase 2 was presented at PS Squared in Belfast during January 2014. For further information please CLICK HERE

Brendan Jamison with Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of Tate, at the Turner Prize award ceremony in Derry/Londonderry on Monday 2 December 2013. "It was wonderful chatting to Nicholas about the recent Henry Tate Mausoleum project, an intricate sugar cube carving installed in London's West Norwood Cemetery as part of the 'Curious' sculpture trail..." The Turner Prize exhibition continues at Ebrington Barracks until Sunday 5 January 2014. For images from the awards cermony please CLICK HERE

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1 DECEMBER 2013

AMERICA: 8 PAGE INTERVIEW IN SCULPTURE MAGAZINE

Published by the International Sculpture Center, New Jersey

Imagination in Hyper-Drive

A conversation with Brendan Jamison. By Brian McAvera

It's rare for Irish sculptors, particularly those from Northern Ireland, to have a high profile by the time they are in their early 30s, but Brendan Jamison, seemingly without effort, has propelled himself into the limelight and is unlikely to be dislodged in the near future. I say "seemingly" because Jamison makes everything look easy, which is, of course, the mark of the true professional. In fact, he is a meticulously hard worker and an unusually gifted artist who uses non-traditional sculptural materials. Over the past decade, he has shown across three continents, and he has a "nose" for the high profile, such as his sugar-cube sculptures of the Tate Gallery and No. 10 Downing Street (exhibited at that building). Jamison is quirky and shrewd - one of those rare sculptors whose work has a quiet sense of humor. He has also, unlike so many Irish male sculptors, managed to avoid the trap of an insistently phallic machismo. Jamison integrates his male and female selves. Watching his sculptural mutations is one of the pleasures of a critic's life.

Every year features at least 5 exciting projects, but we've edited it down to just one sculpture/installation per year to represent a slice of the action over the past decade.....

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2013

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March 2013

CHINA: 3 BEIJING EXHIBITIONS

During the month of March 2013, artist Brendan Jamison was in Beijing installing 3 exhibitions as part of China's annual Irish Wave festival, curated by Fion Gunn. A new series of sugar cube carvings on the theme of 'Walls and Borders' was on show at Creative Crossover China in the 798 Art District of Beijing. The three-part display comprised of the Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall and the Belfast Peace Walls. Across the street in the NuoArt Gallery, an orange wax digger bucket was on display in 'A Tale of Two Cities' exhibition. For further information please CLICK HERE

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2012

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October 2013

London: Royal British Society of Sculptors

Belfast: Royal Ulster Academy of Arts

In October 2012, Brendan Jamison was elected to the Royal British Society of Sculptors (RBS) and the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts (RUA). Pictured above: SUBMARIINES at the 'Interplanetary Revolutions' exhibiton in the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.

London Festival of Architecture: Tate Modern and NEO Bankside in sugar cubes

Sugar cube sculpture models commissioned by Native Land & Grosvenor for the 2010 London Festival of Architecture at the NEO Bankside Pavilion on the Southbank, London. NEO Bankside is designed by world-renowned architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. The original bankside power station was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. It was transfomed into Tate Modern by Herzog and DeMeuron and opened to the public in 2000. Pictured above: TATE MODERN (2010) Brendan Jamison, carved sugar cubes, 100 x 200 x 140 cms.

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2009

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June 2009

BERLIN: The Reichstag Dome

In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Norman Foster's dome that was added to The Reichstag back in 1999, the John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA) invited Brendan Jamison to build a sugar-cube version of the glass and metal edifice. In homage to the iconic 1995 wrapping of The Reichstag (then domeless) by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, JEMA Director Sean Miller commissioned the production of a special wrapping fabric to cover the entire sugar sculpture and an unwrapping event took place at the front of The Reichstag. Several months later, JEMA travelled 'Reichstag Würfelzucker Kuppel' to the Samuel P. Harn Museum in Florida.

In August 2005, Jamison held his first solo exhibition with a series of works focusing on the game-play involved in navigating the art scene, both locally and globally. The five works from this project encouraged the audience to engage directly with the exhibits and employ their own strategies to advance in the fabricated art world! Pictured avove on the wall: 'Guess the Biennale' and in the centre of the gallery 'Artopoly'. For further information CLICK HERE

Brendan Jamison' s carved sugar cube sculpture of NUMBER 10 has been on display in the entrance hall of 10 Downing Street since February 2012. For exhibition images please CLICK HERE

SCULPTURE ON PERMANENT DISPLAY

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2. WRAY GALLERY, BELFAST

Currently on display at the Wray Gallery, Jamison is exhibiting a new sculpture of a war memorial which commemorates the victims of the First World War who died during the Battle of the Somme. Pictured above: THE ULSTER TOWER, THIEPVAL, FRANCE (2014) Brendan Jamison, carved sugar cubes, 43 x 18 x 16 cms. Presented on a wooden base with acrylic display case. Gallery address: 14-16 James Street South, Belfast, Northern Ireland. The gallery is open from 11:30am to 5pm Tuesday to Saturday. ADMISSION FREE.